New guy!

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The trick to leveling an iksar is making a bank alt in a zone like EC to handle all your 'vendor' needs such as putting money in the bank, buying food etc. Most people use bank alts sooner or later anyways but it can be a slight inconvenience if you are new.

On the other end of things, the starting zones and surrounding areas for iksar are great so you can do a good bit of leveling without having to really travel far while other races generally move around a lot. You could level 1-60 without leaving kunark.

Iksar have a 40% exp penalty so take that for what it is worth, exp penalty also stack with class penalty so an iksar SK gets hit with both 40% racial and 40% class penalty which can get really tedious.